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APAC to see fastest software revenue growth
News Asia-Pacific software market will churn US$22.1 billion in revenue next year, boosted by large domestic user base, according to Gartner.
Tags: Business applications, Software, Region, compound annual growth rate, Application Software Expenditure, Software, revenue, Information Technology, Business applications, South Korea
OOXML gains compatibility via ISVs
News Since its ISO ratification, Microsoft's document format has garnered support from third-party applications. But developers say it's not ideological--it's just business.
Tags: Standards, Office suites, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format, Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Office Open XML, Novell Inc., Microsoft Office 2007
Malaysia's schools get OpenOffice.org
News Move will affect some 300,000 PCs across the country, after government made the decision based on "positive" case studies, says local official.
Tags: Open source, Office suites, Security, OpenOffice.org, Open-source Software, Malaysia, public sector, software, knowledge, Internet
Will the OS not matter in time?
Blogs It was late Wednesday afternoon here when news of Google's plans to unveil a desktop operating system (OS) first broke, ...
Office Web Apps won't work offline
News In an interview, Microsoft senior VP Chris Capossela tells CNET News that users will need a desktop version of Office to edit documents without an Internet connection.
Tags: Office suites, Web services, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Google Inc., Web Application, Microsoft PowerPoint, Los Angeles, Google Docs
Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support
News IBM has said it believes support for importing documents in Microsoft's office format could help convince large organizations to drop Office altogether.
Tags: Office suites, Standards, Open source, IBM Corp., Office Open XML, IBM Lotus Notes, Mail Merge, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, data analysis
OpenOffice.org: A 'dying horse'?
Insight commentary OpenOffice.org contributor Michael Meeks calls OpenOffice.org a "dying horse", and states there are only 24 active core developers.
Tags: Open source, Office suites, OpenOffice.org, Sun Microsystems Inc., Environment, Linux, blog, Open source, Office suites
Microsoft's Firefox surprise
Insight commentary The software giant has released a Firefox plug-in. We'll just repeat that: Microsoft has released a Firefox plug-in.
Tags: Office suites, Open source, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Mobile, Web Browser, Office Open XML, Plug-in, GPL, Mozilla Firefox
LA approves US$7.2 million Google Apps deal
News City's contract for Google Apps requires that integration provider Computer Sciences Corp. promise to pay a penalty if there is a security breach.
Tags: Web services, Office suites, E-mail clients, Google Inc., City Council, Security, LA, LA City, District of Columbia, Novell Inc.
Microsoft fixes 26 flaws with 11 patches
News Updates, six of which are critical, affect Microsoft Office suite and individual applications as well as Internet Explorer.
Tags: Security, Network security, Office suites, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Vulnerability, Bulletin, Flaw, Execution, Attacker
OpenOffice patches file-processing flaws
News An update to the productivity suite, found on the Asus Eee and other Netbooks, has been issued to fix two problems that could let outsiders in.
Tags: Office suites, Notebooks and tablets, Security, Open source, Linux, OpenOffice, Acer Inc., OpenOffice.org, Arbitrary Code Execution, Flaw
End of an era for Office 2000
News Support for Office 2000 expired Tuesday, 10 years after Steve Ballmer announced a Web-based version of the productivity suite.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office suites, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, productivity suite, software-as-a-service, online application, Web, Microsoft Office, Office suites
Offline SharePoint tool promised for Mac users
News While Microsoft is not planning to produce a version of Groove for the Mac, the new tool will make SharePoint access much easier for Mac users, company executives say.
Tags: Office suites, Microsoft Office, Groove Networks Inc., Simple Object Access Protocol, SharePoint Workspace, SOA, Tool, Apple Macintosh, P2P, Microsoft PowerPoint
Sun: OpenOffice still a 'great international effort'
News Development projects are underway to improve performance issues in the open source project, which remains a strong focus within the community, says exec.
Tags: Open source, Office suites, Software engineering/development, OpenOffice, OpenOffice.org, Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Contributions, e-mail, performance
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed via a Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced.
Tags: Office suites, Open source, Software integration, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Plug-in, Tool, Interoperability
